Meet maximiliano | artist, educator, creative director, curator, & choreographer

We had the good fortune of connecting with maximiliano and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi maximiliano, what led you to pursuing a creative path professionally?
I love to create, to make marks, to record moments and emotions in gestures, to process through a visual medium, to meet people, to make friends, to collaborate to make art with others, to share art and travel the world doing such. Art is imagining and dreaming new and potential futures, other worlds, and other ways of being, to further new realities, to believe and then exist.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
mononymously named, maximiliano, is a conceptual artist crafting BLKwvv (BLACKWAVE); Black reclamation rococo multimedia mythos of multiplicity, fluidity, race, blackness, pleasure, desirability, innocence, & imagination; digitally, physically, & communally. A generative multimedia practice of ideation & visualization, of embodied mythos & narrative. Expressed as self portrait, performance, installation, video, GIF, sculpture, thought, sound, movement, fabrique trapesties, collaboration, publications, my body, objects, & choreography; as changing the past, present, future. To transform space; echoing frequencies into & through the viewer experiencing the ineffable, chthonic, profane & pleasurable. My practice is varied and diverse, making art and making space for others in my communities, my medium is radical redistribution of resources and disruption of white supremacist, colonialist, capitalist norms. My process is research based; straddling mythologies, eschaton, cosmology, internet creations, Glitch Feminism, & Black nihilistic futures. My artistic practice is ritual.

Fortune, hard work, and support of others was important to get me where I am, and where I am going, belief and tenacity. Art is important and can bring people together through conversation or to collaborate on projects, …

I am excited about new projects, about a new web series SOCIETE de SAINT MAURICE , about black kids at Catholic hs secretly doing magic. (societedesaintmaurice.com)

I have learned how to work with people, how to create and lead large productions, how to think and dream big.

I want the world to know that art is important and key to imagining new worlds.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
Sharita Towne, Nat Turner Project, and Melanie Stevens for all their support and friendship over the years. Les get free.

Website: maximiliano.info

Instagram: @thulsa_moon

Twitter: @ThulsaDoomjr

Other: https://vimeo.com/maxximiliano

Image Credits
1. DRWN cities (Alex Beddall) 2. gaspar en seattle (everything time studio) 3. gaspar en seattle (everything time studio) 4. stacey dash sensitive content (mario gallucci) 5. androids in the tower (courtesy of artist) 6. androids in the tower (courtesy of artist) 7. tba 2021 (Tojo Andrianarivo) 8. tba 2021 (Tojo Andrianarivo)